Simone Weil

Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against gravity, so the grace of God is the only force in the spiritual universe that causes a person to grow against the gravity of their own ego.

Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.

Religion, in so far as it is a source of consolation, is a hinderance to true faith; and in this sense atheism is a purification. I have to be an atheist with that part of myself which is not made for God. Among those in whom the supernatural part of themselves has not been awakened, the atheists are right and the believers are wrong.

Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.

There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.

The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State.

Patriotism is idolatry of the self.